Rice Free Lavender Honey Lemonade
This floral lemonade is the kind of drink that makes an ordinary afternoon feel like a garden party. The lavender honey syrup is the real star — honey and dried culinary lavender are simmered together until the syrup turns faintly purple and deeply fragrant, then strained clean before it ever meets the lemon juice. Fresh-squeezed lemon juice keeps the brightness sharp and real, and the whole thing comes together in a pitcher with nothing more complicated than a stir and a taste. Every single ingredient here is naturally grain-free and free of rice in any form, so there is absolutely nothing to second-guess on the label. The recipe even encourages you to adjust sweetness and tartness to your own palate, which means it is genuinely hard to get wrong. Poured over ice with a sprig of lavender tucked into the glass, it looks stunning with almost zero effort.
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4 servings
For the lavender honey syrup
- 1 cup water
- ⅓ cup honey
- 2 tbsp dried culinary lavender
For the lemonade
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice (from about 6–7 lemons)
- 3 cups cold water
For serving
- ice, for serving
- lemon slices, for serving (optional)
- fresh lavender sprigs, for serving (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Combine 1 cup water, the honey, and dried lavender in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the honey fully dissolves, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and let the lavender steep for 15–20 minutes, until the syrup is fragrant and faintly purple-tinged.
- 2
Pour the syrup through a fine-mesh strainer into a pitcher, pressing gently on the lavender to extract the liquid; discard the solids.
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